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Test 10 · Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics

Scientists' fingers went numb after handling a bird in New Guinea. What had they found?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fingers · What happens: go, handle, find · To what, where: bird, New Guinea

This is test 10 of lesson 247 «Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Scientists' fingers went numb after handling a bird in New Guinea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fingers	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Scientists	case
3	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 handling	mark
7	handling	handle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handling	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 Guinea	case
11	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Guinea	compound
12	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bird	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Scientists's fingers					numb property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	handle	gerund	Scientists's fingers not said here	a bird		New Guinea			vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What had they found?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 found	obj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · perfect	fingers = finger						vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

A bird coated all over in sticky glue from trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	coated	coat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bird	acl
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 over	advmod
5	over	over	ADV	_	3 coated	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 glue	case
7	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glue	amod
8	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coated	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 trees	case
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 glue	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coat	participle		a bird not said here				in sticky glue from trees; over property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glue=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A poisonous bird, the hooded pitohui

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pitohui	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pitohui	det
6	hooded	hooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pitohui	amod
7	pitohui	pitohui	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A bird covered in ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bird	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 ice	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		a bird not said here				in ice	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ice=Theme

Option 4

A bird with electric feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 feathers	case
4	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feathers	amod
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bird	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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